History of Japanese Economic Thought

Traces the principal currents in Japanese economic thought since the first half of the 19th century and shows how these currents have been influenced by the changing economic and social environment within Japan.

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Associate Professor in Economic History at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Her previous books include Showa: An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan (1984) and Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan (1988).

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Japanese and Western economic thought -- 1. Economic thought in Tokugawa Japan -- 2. The introduction of Western economic thought: from the Meiji Restoration to the First World War -- 3. Economic debates in inter-war Japan -- 4. Post-war Marxian economics -- 5. Economic theory and the 'economic miracle' -- 6. Contemporary Japanese economic thought -- Bibliography -- Index.